Customs Tariff Act 1902 provided for a duty of 3d
per lb on printed circulars, price lists & advertising matter sent to Australia.
This duty prepaid the customs tariff making sure the items were delivered and
not refused by the addressee. The revenues including the surcharged in US cents were available at High Commission
Office London and could be used in any country. Known usages Australia, Belgium,
France, Germany, Norway & Switzerland. Use was not compulsory. Regular & surcharged in US cents were also available to advertisers from the Australian Consulate in New York. No values in Australian cents were ever produced.

Two types of ½d exist on same sheet. Type I has red shading to horizontal bar separating 1&2.
Type II red shading is missing.

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The bi-colours can be out of
register within the one sheet. Evidenced by the left pair above

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Sterling value purchased and sent from New
York

As we know
these revenues were available to the public in the USA from the Australian Consulate in New York but surcharged
in US cents, advertisers could purchase the revenues to prepay the Australian
customs duty

A proving piece
from
the USA without being surcharged in 'cents'. Once removed from the cover you
would have no way of telling it's provenance

Incoming
untied card obviously from the same source as the above card

1923 No WatermarkPerforation 12 Plate I Tied to cover by USA postmark

¼d-$200.00

Another
postcard from the Maryborough City Council hoard 1945 which slipped through
untaxed

1947 No
Watermark. Perf 12½xroul9, 10 Perf 11xroul9, 400 Perf 12½xroul9 or 11xroul9 or 12½x11. Printed in sheets of 10 2x5 Prices are for Mint remainders Used
halves x
3. On cart note x 10 Different printings show with or without a black 'A'

Canteen Orders are akin to the Postal Note as they carry a poundage or fee
paid at the time of purchase. Canteen Orders come under the same discipline as Postal Notes [see article on home page 'Judging Postal Notes''] They are rare to very rare as survival of these notes depended on the Soldier not
'cashing' them at an Australian Defence Canteen. The letter prefix before the
number denotes the state of issue i.e. the note above was issued in Victoria
hence V 524181. South Australian letter prefix was a single S etc Read more here

British possession was administered by Queensland from
1888 this was transferred to Australia in 1901

BRITISH DEPENDENCY OF NEW GUINEA
was worried by the growing German presence in New Guinea, the British colonies in
Australia started claiming the annexation of the eastern part of the island by
the UK and in an attempt to force an issue, Queensland even sent an agent to the
island in 1883, but the action was not recognized by the British government. It
was only after Germany had established a protectorate over the north eastern
part that London finally yielded and also proclaimed its protectorate over the
south eastern part [1884]. In 1888 the area was formally annexed by the UK as
British New Guinea, the colonies of New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria
having however to participate in the financing of the administration until 1898

As a
consequence of the Japanese invasion both territories were placed under military
rule in February 1942. Two months later they were merged to form Australian New
Guinea, which also remained under military rule until 1945/1946